"The Graziano family is claiming in the lawsuit that Hogan and Linda Bollea should have known that their son was a reckless driver, and were also aware that their son was drinking on the day of the crash."

We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.

“That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy” - Swift

As long as we're blaming parents here... shouldn't the parents of the dead boy have taken an active interest in their son's friends, and therefore known that "that Bollea boy" was a reckless driver, a drinker, and all-around bad news, then encouraged their son not to hang around him?

Hey, how do we know it wasn't the dead boy who was encouraging Nick "here man, have a few beers. it's cool... Hey this car is AWESOME man, open it up and show me what it can do!"

As long as we're blaming parents here... shouldn't the parents of the dead boy have taken an active interest in their son's friends, and therefore known that "that Bollea boy" was a reckless driver, a drinker, and all-around bad news, then encouraged their son not to hang around him?

Hey, how do we know it wasn't the dead boy who was encouraging Nick "here man, have a few beers. it's cool... Hey this car is AWESOME man, open it up and show me what it can do!"

Just my cynical view.

Nick Hogan has been ticketed 4 times in a year and a half for speeding. Regardless of what the 22-year-old passenger (not a boy, a former Marine, and member of Nick's drifting pit crew) may or may not have encouraged him to do, he obviously has a problem with breaking speeding laws. And these aren't small tickets either. 115 mph in a 70 zone, 57 mph in a 30 zone, 106 mph in a 70 zone, and 82 mph in a 45 construction zone.

Yes, the guy should have known better, and should have been wearing a seatbelt. But that doesn't change the facts that he was driving inappropriately with a BAC of .055, which is illegal because he's 17. The lawsuit is for negligence, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The man is expected to be permanently disabled with brain and eye injuries. The Hogans should pay for the cost of his care at least.

I think it's crazy that when you have money like the Hogan's do, that you'd let your kid do something that would put your finances in jeopardy through a lawsuit like this.